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  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: jwest AT highland.net
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 "bruise"
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:29:14 -0600

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:07:49 -0500 Jim West <jwest AT highland.net> writes:
> At 11:09 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>
> >This is NOT a paraphrase, in the technical sense. The New Living
> >Translation is explicitly a translation from the original
> languages, and
> >as such differs from the Living Bible which was a paraphrase, i.e.
> an
> >adaptation within the same language, of the American Standard
> Bible.
>
> It is indeed a paraphrase in the correct meaning of the word- here
> is their
> own description:
>
> The challenge for the translators was to create a text that would
> make the
> same impact in the life of modern readers that the original text had
> for
> the original readers. In the New Living Translation, this is
> accomplished
> by translating entire thoughts (rather than just words) into
> natural,
> everyday English.
>
> Note- the bold prinit is their own emphasis- they don't render words
> but
> "entire thoughts" - i.e., they paraphrase.
>
> Jim
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> Jim West, ThD
> Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
> Quartz Hill School of Theology
_____________

Jim,

That's not the technical sense of "paraphrase" to which Peter refers. In
the technical sense a translation begins with the text in the original
language while a paraphrase begins from an existing translation of the
text.

george
gfsomsel




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